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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

There’s a lot of buzz about the Amazon acquisition of TWITCH this week. Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. Acuia provides premium, high security, supported hosting to it’s customers, which all runs on top of Amazon AWS.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The temptation, therefore, is to stop everything, to clear bandwidth for some very real and very pressing crisis management. Consider hosting “show it off” on social events, particularly for products that depend on social non-distancing motivations. Building a method for production that makes this efficient enough for profit.

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Problems (For the Most Part) Resolved with wordpress and dreamhost

Software By Rob

After about 8 hours of troubleshooting I was downloading all of the files and database to move to another host, when the DreamHost support rep suggested I try to run this site under a different shell username. I moved on to another host long ago. I don’t think they do Windows hosting, but for WordPress that doesn’t matter.

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How to Conduct a Technical SEO Audit

ConversionXL

By disallowing them, Unbounce is able to save on bandwidth and crawl budget —the number of pages Googlebot crawls and indexes on a website within a given timeframe. While these do need attention, the problem lies with your hosting provider or web developer, not your website. 429: Too many server requests in a short space of time.

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Deep dive: Cancellation rate in SaaS business models

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

For a company laser-focussed on accelerating the number of active users, it might be actually worth having high cancellation rates if it meant an even higher acquisition rate. In the case of WP Engine, we knock off 2% for credit card fees and a certain amount for hosting and bandwidth costs.

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I’ve Built Multiple Growth Teams. Here’s Why I Won’t Do It Again.

ConversionXL

I use a more restrictive definition: A growth team is a product tech team that’s focused on acquisition instead of core product features. I’ve found that one engineer isn’t quite enough bandwidth to keep up with a full-time designer and growth manager. The term “growth” gets used loosely these days. Growth teams are expensive.

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

Embed blog videos hosted on facebook so you can track consumption and advertise to them. Optimize for retention, not just acquisition. To understand acquisition you must understand lifetime value. Structure that works the best for emails. branded header and tagline. sub-headline with CTA. remind people that you care about them.

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